A defiant Charles Rangel yesterday said that he didn’t want any “special breaks” — and that he’s going to face his alleged ethics violations because it’s the American thing to do.

“I think I owe it to the process to find out what the investigative committee found out,” the Democratic congressman told reporters yesterday at an event at Harlem Hospital.

“Maybe, just maybe, I have evidence to prove that it’s not substantive. But I don’t want any special breaks.”

Lawyers for Rangel, 80, were reportedly working with a House committee on a deal that could forestall Thursday’s announcement of specific charges — and pre-empt a lengthy ethics trial that could begin Sept. 15, the day after New York’s primary elections.

But Rangel said settlement talk was premature.

“It’s so inappropriate . . . Do you want deals, or do you want the truth? I don’t know how I could make a deal when nobody knows what they’ve found,” he said.